Kim Junghwan: The Story of a Legendary Korean Fencer

[@SlicerSabre]

This video has taken a lot of time to put together. If you enjoyed it, why not show your appreciation with a Super Thanks 🙏? A lot of things were taken from Kim's blog:m.blog.naver.com/PostList.naver?blogId=coolet6 0:00 Intro 0:39 Beginnings 1:41 Early Ups and Downs 2:50 Down... 3:46 ...and back up 7:43 The End 8:54 "Old Man Kim" 10:27 The Avengers 15:19 Outro

[@catlikearcher9955]

Kim Junghwan is a bit of a personal role model for me. I don’t think I could fence like him, but I’ve only ever heard good things about the kind of person he is. His perseverance and dedication are legendary. Also love the GOAT scream.

[@tedkim4253]

Kim Junghwan is at our club this week as a guest coach for our summer camp. My son had the privilege of taking a lesson with him, and he truly is remarkable. Gentle, patient, insightful and always smiling, he made the lesson fun and intense. The Korean Team completed the past 7 seasons as the #1 ranked team in the world, per FIE, and could make it 8 in row depending on how they do at the Paris Olympics. During their streak at #1, they won 4 world championships in a row and the Tokyo Olympics. As Slicer said in this documentary, it started at the 2017 Leipzig World Championships. Their toughest challenge was in the semis against Team USA: Eli Dershwitz, Daryl Homer and Jeff Spear. The US jumped out to a 5-1 start. Kim Junghwan was the 2nd leg and flipped the lead with an incredible 9-1 outing, making it 10-6 Korea. In the final leg, Korea was trailing 38-40. The anchors were Homer and Oh. At 44-44, Oh's cut was parried, but his blade still turned the light on. Homer's riposte hit Oh just below the waist of Oh's lamé. Homer fell face down on the piste and refused to get up. According to Kim Junghwan, had Homer made his light turn on, Kim believes the point would have been Homer's. In the finals, Korea faced Hungary. Szilagyi had won his second Olympic Gold and was ranked in the top 3, I think, and Szatmari had just won individual gold at the same event. Korea demolished Hungary 45-22. If i remember correctly, Kim Junghwan played a critical role with an insane indicator (point differential). He the led this team to win Gold at the 2018 Wuxi World Champs beating Italy 45-22. Oh may have been the monster/terminator, Gu may have outranked Kim Junghwan, and KimJunho may have had the most exciting athletic style, but our hero was the heart and soul of this Korean Team. Standing only 5'10" with a very slender frame, his success comes from his incredible grit, high fencing IQ, technical abilities, and his relish of tactical mind games. I hope he fully recovers from his hamstring and arm injuries and continues to show the world how someone with average physical attributes and beyond their prime can continue to shine at the highest levels of competition.

[@maximepianfetti6132]

Absolute champion and Warrior, but also a nice guy. Thanks for this video.

[@dw17763]

This type of content is desperately needed by fencing, thank you for all of the work you do

[@blackbluered110]

This is prolly the first time a fencing video made me emotional T-T

[@TalesForWhales]

Great doc! Solid character development points with an arch of rise, fall, rise, of the hero ending with him being mature enough through learned humility to take on the role of mentor. You beat the trash that hollywood is cranking out these days.

[@OlympicFoil]

Amazing work, great great storytelling

[@lamentsfencing]

You're goated for this

[@ricefarmer11clips19]

my favortite fencer ever

[@soup0803]

Absolutely loving the new content man, you truly are a trailblazer in fencing content. Keep going!!!

Grazie.

[@SlicerSabre]

Thank you!

[@Sammy-cq5gp]

Incredible video, I'd love to see more like it!!

[@seongdokkim1685]

You are very committed to create this fine video. Thanks a lot! I think Kim would be grateful for your time and efforts on this.

[@Zaison]

I had no idea that he was banned from fencing for a year 0.o that's got to be one of the craziest parts of his career

[@timothychang801]

Amazing work!

[@inkandesk]

The twist that in his very short retirement he took up darts is so funny to me

[@yvessaxnts]

gonna start implementing darts into my training fr

[@leftysabreuse3257]

Wow, fantastic and inspiring video!

[@SlicerSabre]

Thanks 🙏

[@Kailyn_anna214]

Great video!! Please make more!!

[@elenafilyanskaya686]

прекрасный рассказ , спасибо за вашу работу

[@abdheshsinghkaurav5147]

He is amazing ❤❤💪

[@Stefanoytube97]

Amazing video and love to learn more about the legends of our sport! keep up the amazing work and content. Love to see it

[@kimoe_52]

Need more vids like this❤ thank you❤

[@poketheooi7020]

amazing video!

[@donatzhakupov8304]

Make video like that about career of Max Hartung ✈️

[@engardegus6530]

Yooo it’s my meme at 11:38

[@aarnaaruneshmishra4176]

Is the music Om Shanti Om?

[@neetu.y]

Bro why om shaanti om is playing in the start

[@tastytesty]

So, what is the name for Aron then?

[@ryanschultz9037]

It seems like using a heating pad and then a forge to cant the blade would work (my club had a bunch of saber fencers who liked blades with a wicked forward 'cant' or bend). Interesting video, mind doing a foil re-wire lecture when you have the chance?